Must Swear Off From Swearing. Bad Habit.

He [william Merritt Chase] Is, I Suspect, Getting A Very Truthful Likeness. I Would Like It Better If [it] Was Not So Gray, So Cramped About The Eyes, And Not Quite So Corpulent. But Is This Not Quarreling With Nature?

The Filth And Noise Of The Crowded Streets Soon Destroy The Elasticity Of Health Which Belongs To The Country Boy.

Wars Will Remain While Human Nature Remains. I Believe In My Soul In Cooperation, In Arbitration; But The Soldier's Occupation We Cannot Say Is Gone Until Human Nature Is Gone.

My Hobby More And More Is Likely To Be Common School Education, Or Universal Education.

How Strange A Scene Is This In Which We Are Such Shifting Figures, Pictures, Shadows. The Mystery Of Our Existence--i Have No Faith In Any Attempted Explanation Of It. It Is All A Dark, Unfathomed Profound.