Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.