In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.