I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.