The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.