The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.