The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.