I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On …

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal.