It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.