We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.