7.  Whatever he knows and thinks, whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let him communicate, or men will never know and honor him aright.

8.  Stand aside; give those merits room; let them mount and expand.

9.  We see the noble afar off, and they repel us; why should we intrude?

10.  We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will call it out and reveal us to ourselves.

11.  A gay and pleasant sound is the whetting of the scythe in the mornings of June, yet what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower’s rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?

12.  “Strike,” says the smith, “the iron is white;” “keep the rake,” says the haymaker, “as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake.”

13.  Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade.

14.  On the most profitable lie the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.

15.  The sturdiest offender of your peace and of the neighborhood, if you rip up his claims, is as thin and timid as any; and the peace of society is often kept, because, as children, one is afraid, and the other dares not.

16.  They will shuffle and crow, crook and hide, feign to confess here, only that they may brag and conquer there, and not a thought has enriched either party, and not an emotion of bravery, modesty, or hope.

17.  The magic they used was the ideal tendencies, which always make the Actual ridiculous; but the tough world had its revenge the moment they put their horses of the sun to plow in its furrow.

18.  Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

19.  When you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

20.  Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

21.  Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies at its focus.

22.  We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young, and dodge the account; or, if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

23.  So does culture with us; it ends in headache.

24.  Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

25.  Thus journeys the mighty Ideal before us; it never was known to fall into the rear.

PART III.