It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

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

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.