Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!