The Last Degree Of Honesty Has Always

[on Being Deaf:] We Must Struggle For Whatever May Be Had, Without Encroaching On The Comfort Of Others.

Religion Is A Temper, Not A Pursuit. It Is The Moral Atmosphere In Which Human Beings Are To Live And Move. Men Do Not Live To Breathe: They Breathe To Live.

There Have Been Few Things In My Life Which Have Had A More Genial Effect On My Mind Than The Possession Of A Piece Of Land.

This Noble Word [women], Spirit-stirring As It Passes Over English Ears, Is In America Banished, And 'ladies' And 'females' Substituted: The One To English Taste Mawkish And Vulgar; The Other Indistinctive And Gross.

Must Love Be Ever Treated With Profaneness As A Mere Illusion? Or With Coarseness As A Mere Impulse? Or With Fear As A Mere Disease? Or With Shame As A Mere Weakness? Or With Levity As A Mere Accident? Whereas It Is A Great Mystery And A Great Necessity, Lying At The Foundation Of Human Existence, Morality, And Happiness,--mysterious, Universal, Inevitable As Death.