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

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.