That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another