Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.