Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.