When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.