One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a commu...nity of thought, a rivalry of aim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of the...ir times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The secret of heaven is kept from age to age. No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings ...of saints, the fears of mortals. We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents, and could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »