The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

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

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.