Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”