For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

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

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

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.

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

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.