It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.