It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

Character is that which can do without success.