Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.