The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Home – that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I’ll come and rap on the ballot box.
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.
Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!
Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.
Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!
I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln.
It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.
I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.