The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.