Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.