Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.