It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

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.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.