The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.