It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

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.