We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men..

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism..

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpe….

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh..

Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two ….

Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pi….

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford st….

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side..

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain..

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods..

The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the gr….

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though….

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly..

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet..

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge..

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness..

God is liberal of color; so should man be..

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain..

We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother..

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon..

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep..