Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .