Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.