"Praise the , and love His creatures, birds and beasts as well as…

Surely the King of Love needed no herald when Himself was here.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons, is a Divine instinct.

It is strange, sometimes, to find that some silent old lady has a power for sounding human character, which far shrewder persons lack.

She has been taught to hold herself in, and not to show her feelings; and that, I think, is as much a drawback sometimes as wearing the heart upon the sleeve.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light, and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.

The development of a nation is strangely paralleled by the development of an individual. There comes in both a period of adolescence, ... and there is a curious mingling of refinement and brutality, stupidity and tenderness.