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

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.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.