The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.