All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.