Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.