Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

As soon as there is life there is danger.