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

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

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.

Man has will, but woman has her way.