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

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.