The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.