To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead"; but angels throng about him, saying, "A man is born."

Mirth is God's medicine.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the purer and richer blood of the blacks, they will die out and wither away in unprolific skinniness.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.