The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.