It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.