Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.