The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.