Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

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

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.