There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.