All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.