Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.
Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.