I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.