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

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

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.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."