Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

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

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.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.