Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.