We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

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

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.