The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?