The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.