Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”