You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

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.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.