A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.