Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

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

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

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.