It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?