The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

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