Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.