Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

Character is that which can do without success.