When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.