The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.