The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.