We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.