There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.