If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.