Truthfulness is godliness.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.