It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

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

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.