Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.