It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.