We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Where God is, all agree.