Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

Water taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.