Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.

Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.