Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers