There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.