A Friendship Formed In Childhood, In Youth,--by

Sleep On Your Writing; Take A Walk Over It; Scrutinize It Of A Morning; Review It Of An Afternoon; Digest It After A Meal; Let It Sleep In Your Drawer A Twelvemonth; Never Venture A Whisper About It To Your Friend, If He Be An Author Especially.

The Books That Charmed Us In Youth Recall The Delight Ever Afterwards; We Are Hardly Persuaded There Are Any Like Them, Any Deserving Our Equal Affections.

Who Speaks To The Instincts Speaks To The Deepest In Mankind, And Finds The Readiest Response.

Cities With All Their Advantages Have Something Hostile To Liberal Learning, The Seductions Are So Subtle And Accost The Senses So Openly On All Sides.

The History Of Religions, Of Which Christianity Is A Transcendent Element, Awaits The Deepest Study. It Requires Bibles To Free From Bibles. Comparative Theology Is The Best Of Studies For Liberating One's Mind From Geographical And Traditional Limitations. Like Travelling, It Shows The Globe In Its Varying Climates And Zones, Its Latitude And Longitude Of Intelligence. When The Races Shall Have Learned Each Other's Language, The Significance Of Things To Thoughts, One Faith Becomes Universal, One Brotherhood.