A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.