"For men must work, and women must weep, And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning."

"And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep— And good-bye to the bar and its moaning."

"Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done."

"If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little chil…"

"So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and…"

"Hold on yet awhile. More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream."

"Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of…"

"Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you…"

"Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting."

"They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the se…"