There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.