Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.