Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.