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.

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

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

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.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.