Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.