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

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.