Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.