There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.