Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

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

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.