History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough..

What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to ….

Man loves most that which is his own..

People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The ….

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile..

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa..

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society..

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of phy….

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, whic….

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the prof….

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence..

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything..

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the….

There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom ….

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, ha….

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church..

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, co….

In the one branch he most needed.

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are pos….

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvati….

His brothers were the type; he was the variation..