Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

Earth laughs in flowers.

It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.