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

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.