One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.