Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.