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

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.