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

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.