Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad