God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.