He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

I knew these false attacks would come. I knew this day would arrive, it's only a question of when. And I knew the American people would rise above it and vote for the future they deserve.

Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.

Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

If you were a fish, and you were to touch a doorknob, you would be able to feel the presence of every person who had touched that doorknob during the course of a day.