Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.