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

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.