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.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

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

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

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

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.