It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

The body can feed the body only.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.