Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.