I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.