Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

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.

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.