Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Conversation is a game of circles.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.