North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

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

it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak its own little patois, and see but one side of the question on which it fights.

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

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.