Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

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

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.