Henry Watterson: “New York had never witnessed, never divined anything in pathos and humor so exquisite.”

With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.

Too many churches—or, shall I say, church fabrics—breeding controversy where there should be agreement, each sect and subdivision fighting phantoms of its fancy.

O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!

It is love—love through grace of God—truth where we can find it—which shall irradiate the life that is.