He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.