What compensations are there for our calamities?
Show how this law of compensation is illustrated in the acts of some of the characters that you have studied in fiction: for example, Shylock, Ivanhoe, Isaac, Portia, Godfrey Cass, Silas Marner.
Friendship
What is the theme of this essay?
How is friendship different from companionship?
How do friends enlarge and improve us?
Why often do "Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions"? (p. 145).
What are the two elements that go to the composition of friendship? Illustrate each.
What is Emerson's idea about the possibility of helpful conversation where more than two take part?
Discuss, to show the measure of truth that it contains.