Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

Love is more just than justice.