He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.