No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.