Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

True wit never made us laugh.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

Thoughts rule the world.