It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.