It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.

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

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.