I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.