Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

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.