Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you..

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does….

Rome is an astonishment!.

Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so l….

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less e….

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down,….

When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived f….

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive fo….

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal..

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldl….

What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or ….

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which ha….

Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish o….

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning h….

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the faith of a ….

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremon….

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes..

Women are the true modelers of social order..

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: t….

My vocation to preach on paper..