Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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.