If I am visited by a thought, I chew that cud each successive morning, as long as there is any flavor in it. - Henry David Thoreau

The question is not whether you or your grandfather, seventy years ago, did not enter into an agreement to serve the devil, and that service is not accordingly now due; but whether you will not now, for once and at last, serve God, —in spite of your own past recreancy, or that of your ancestor, —by obeying that eternal and only just CONSTITUTION, which He, and not any Jefferson or Adams, has written in your being.

Birds shoot like twigs. The young are as big as the old when they leave the nest; have only got to harden and mature.

He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.