Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.