My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

The finest poetry was first experience.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.