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

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

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

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

Now comes the mystery.

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.