On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.