Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.