Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.