Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.