Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.