The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.