Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?