Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.