It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.