Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

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

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.