Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.