No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.