I
pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask
me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic,
to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate,
as if I knew already. Every natural function can be
dignified by deliberation and privacy. Let us leave
hurry to slaves.

MANNERS

OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST

Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are:that is a great fact, and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it only that thyself is here,—and art and nature, hope and dread, friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

HEROISM

OCTOBER TWENTY-SECOND

There are many eyes
that can detect and honor the
prudent and household virtues ; there are many that
can discern Genius on his starry track, though the
mob is incapable; but when that love which is
all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has
vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a
fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by
any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,
-only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and
the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

CHARACTER

H

1

OCTOBER TWENTY-THIRD

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor: and how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

WEALTH

OCTOBER TWENTY-FOURTH

To a man at work, the frost is but a color: the rain, the wind, he forgot them when he came in. Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated. Neither will we be driven into a quiddling abstemiousness. 'T is a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

OCTOBER TWENTY-FIFTH

Light is light which radiates,
Blood is blood which circulates,
Life is life which generates,
And many-seeming life is one.

OCTOBER TWENTY-SIXTH

CULTURE

THRENODY

...

There is always room for the man of force. . . . A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates, as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

POWER

I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character. Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the éclat in the uni

verse.

ILLUSIONS

OCTOBER TWENTY-EIGHTH

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity for the contemplation of the soul.

IDEALISM

OCTOBER TWENTY-NINTH

Why should I roam,

Who cannot circumnavigate the sea

Of thoughts and things at home, but still adjourn The nearest matters to another moon?

Why see new men, who have not understood the

old?

THE DAY'S RATION

OCTOBER THIRTIETH

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.

SPIRITUAL LAWS

OCTOBER THIRTY-FIRST

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity.

SELF-RELIANCE

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