God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.