We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.