We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.