We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

You cannot make a cheap palace.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.