The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!