There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

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

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.