Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?