The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.