A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.