Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

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

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.