Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

May you live all the days of your life.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.