In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.

Persisting in a charge which one does not know to be true, is simply malicious slander.

I planted myself upon the truth, and the truth only, so far as I knew it, or could be brought to know it.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.