Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

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.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.