The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veilhangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating.