... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

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

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.