I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.