The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

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

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.