Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.