The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

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

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

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