Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

The pain that every struggle brings, is the beginning stage of your future strength.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Our relationship, our shared support, our consistency, is unrivaled by any other connection.