Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.