Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Lies exist only to be extinguished.

A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.