It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.