One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.