If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.