Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.