It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. Rights are grand things, divine things in this world of God's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.