In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.