Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.