The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

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

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.