Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

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.