Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.