Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.