You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.