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.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.