“A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”

“My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.”

“If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.”

“Like an armed warrior like a plumed knight James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the malign-ers of his honor.”

“Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.”

“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”

“Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.”

“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.”

“A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”