Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.