What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.