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19. The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

20. Wealth is mental; wealth is moral. . . . a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue in the world.

21. That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the universe, a faith that they will fulfil themselves, and are not to be impeded, transgressed or accelerated. Our people are too slight and vain. They are easily elated and easily depressed.

. . . Our people act on the moment, and from external impulse. They all lean on some other, and this superstitiously, and not from insight of his merit. They follow a fact; they follow success, and not skill. . . . Therefore, as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, they quit him; already they remember that they long ago suspected his judgment, and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered. Of course this levity makes them as easily despond.

22. "There are two things," said Mahomet, "which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions." Our times are impatient of both, and specially of the last. Let us have nothing now which is not its own