In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or the contents of anonymous letters; I take the testimony of those who knew and loved him, of those to whom he opened his heart and to whom he spoke in the freedom of perfect confidence.

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

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.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.