I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.

Moonlight is sculpture.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.