Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.