Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.