The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.