What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.