He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.