Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

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

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.