I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.