Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.