We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

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.