The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

I look through the grave into heaven.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

No man is so great as mankind.