Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.