When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still. Then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life. It is only needful to place yourself so that if it may come, and then it comes of itself. And then everything turns and changes itself to the best.

The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.