"But he remembered that even if she did box his ears, he musn't box hers again, for she was a girl, and all that boys must do, if girls are rude, is to go away and leave them."

"If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise."

"Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding."

"No one, however strong he may feel his obligations, will ever be man enough to fulfill them except that he be a Christian-that is,one who, like Christ, cares first for the will of the Father."

"There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!"