To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

A great man is always willing to be little.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.