There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.