"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.