To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.