Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but is it nota real triumph? I do my work clean as I go along, and they will not be likely to want me anywhere again. So there is no danger of my repeating myself, and getting to a barrel of sermons, which you must upset, and begin again with.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

We are superior to the joy we experience.