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

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.