All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.