Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!