Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.