Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

There is no wealth but life.

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.