You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

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

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.