we are so scornful when we are young!

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?