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 man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

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