never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.

We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

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

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.