Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.

We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.