Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.