Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

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.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

Do not judge from mere appearances.