The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.