People read every thing nowadays, except books.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.