God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.