The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.