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.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.