Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.