There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.