Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The devil has his elect.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.