When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

All things are known to the soul.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.