This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.