The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.