A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.