Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.