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.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

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

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.