Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.