Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.