Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.