Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.