Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.