Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.