Your little child is the only true democrat.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.