What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.