Morning brings back the heroic ages.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.