If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?