An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

- Shailer Mathews

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

- Shailer Mathews

If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.

- Shailer Mathews

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

- Shailer Mathews