Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable