Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

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.

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

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 universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

Do not judge from mere appearances.