Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.