Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past..

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man..

O reputation! dearer far than life..

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, ….

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,-….

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak..

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how….

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have b….

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack ….

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind..

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own..

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. S….

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly….

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage..

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human natur….

They have rights who dare maintain them..

I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does e….

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience..

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therei….

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant..

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, af….