In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

Postpone not your life.