Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.