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

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.