We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.