I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

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

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

Education is an asset no man can take away.