…it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a...

It’s wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is...

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the...

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.

God planted the seeds of all the trees,” continued Hetty, after a moment’s pause, “and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read...

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!