We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.