Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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