I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

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

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.