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

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.