A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.