the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.