Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.