One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.