Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.