Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.