The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.