Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.