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

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

Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.

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.

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.

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