Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.