Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.