If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

We are wiser than we know.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.