The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.