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.

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.