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.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.