A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.