Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

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

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

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.