I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stood on truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together on nothing.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.