As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

God is the explanation of all things.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

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