Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.