What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives.

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

The bravest are the tenderest.