The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.