The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

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

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.