The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

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

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.