Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

The eye of prudence may never shut.