I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but is it not ...a real triumph? I do my work clean as I go along, and they will not be likely to want me anywhere again. So there is no danger of my repeating myself, and getting to a barrel of sermons, which you must upset, and begin again with.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glo...rious private life. No, I am not patriotic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe it is only necessary that England be fully awakened to a sense of her position, in order that she may right herself, esp...ecially as the weather will soon cease to be her foe. I wish I could believe that the cause in which you are embarked is the cause of the people of England. However, I have no sympathy with the idleness that would contrast this fighting with the teachings of the pulpit; for, perchance, more virtue is being practiced at Sevastopol than in many years of peace. It is a pity that we seem to require a war, from time to time, to assure us that there is any manhood still left in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »