Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stood on truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together on nothing.