The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect.

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.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.