Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

Cunning is strength withheld.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.