The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.