The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.