There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

The things that hurt us teach us.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.