Morality is the object of government.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

Souls are not saved in bundles.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.