It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

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