I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.

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

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.