I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.