There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.