Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.