[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

God bless us, every one!

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

The hands really show signs of age.

Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.

Start small and dream big.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.