It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

A yawn is a silent shout.

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.