There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Children don't know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

I believe it is the responsibility of every generation to reach their generation for Christ.

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

The average woman falls in love seven times a year. Only six are with shoes.

No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.