Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverg...
The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this ta...
I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intellegent, and res...
Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
