In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle