All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

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 religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.