The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.