So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

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

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.

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.