No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

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

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

In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?