The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.