Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.