I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.