One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

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

Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

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

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.