Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.