A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.