Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

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.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.