Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.