A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.