In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.