When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.

Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.