It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.