Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.