If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.