An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.