Seeking is not always the way to find.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.