There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.