Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

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

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.