Birth: 1858 Death: 1932
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking..
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation..
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows..
Law is the rudder of the ship of state..
Love dwindles by pairing..
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it..
The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul..
Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything..
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists..
Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand..
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction..
The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses..
No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers..
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream..
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon..
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time..
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen..
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance..
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another..
Life is being, not having..
Patience is moral elasticity..