The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.