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.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.