There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.