The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.