A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

My vocation to preach on paper.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

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