The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.