Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

A babe is a mother's anchor.