It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

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

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.