New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.