The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.