The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

Past tears are present strength.

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

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.