There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.