The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.