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.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

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.