We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.