A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.