God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.