A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

Every artist was first an amateur.