If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.