Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.