Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

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

Education is an asset no man can take away.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.