If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

We boil at different degrees.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.