When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.