No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.