You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.