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

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

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.

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.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.