He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.