God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.