The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.