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.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

People only see what they are prepared to see.