Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.