Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

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

What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.