I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.