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

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

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.

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.

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

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