Political life in our country has plowed in muddy channels, and needs the infusion of clearer and cleaner waters. I am not sure that women are...
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I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simply more voters...
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The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.
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In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made—a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her pare...
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To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...
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O heavens! how short a time does it take to put an eternal end to a woman's liberty!
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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
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Well, the wedding is over, the good folks are joined for better for worse—a shocking clause that!—'tis preparing one to lead a long journe...
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For te...
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... every sapient prophecy with regard to America has been disproved. We were forewarned that she was too free, and her liberty has proved her...
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Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild, Jesus Christ her little Child.
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Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do.
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The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is...
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.
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If Jesus, or his likeness, should now visit the earth, what church of the many which now go by his name would he enter? Or, if tempted by curi...
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Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow.
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
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We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the futur...
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Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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All things bright and beautiful All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
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If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
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Our food system takes abundant grain, which people can't afford, and shrinks it into meat, which better-off people will pay for.
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