The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.