I have not the most definite designs on the future.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.