What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.