The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.