There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.