They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

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

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.