The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.