The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

War? War is an organized bore.