Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.