To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.