If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.