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

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.