Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.