They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

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

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.