Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must accept it. The only choice is how.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.