Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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