Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Men can bear all things but good days.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.