The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God.

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.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

It loves more readily than it hates.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.