A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.