Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develop….

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if ….

It was part of your religion to hate the British..

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror..

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and….

Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and ….

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great..

it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of pr….

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough..

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us..

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet..

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him..

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you woul….

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it..

No man surely has so short a memory as the American..

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay..

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, lo….

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew up it was his duty as a Christia….

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread..

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums..

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving t….