Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.