I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.