Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.