She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.