Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.