Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

Silence is a still noise.