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.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.