The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?).

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

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.

The easiest way of life is the best.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.