The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.