It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.