Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.