Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.