Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.