All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy