Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.