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.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.