Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.