We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

The eye is the best of artists.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

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

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.