There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.