When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.