In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.