Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.