It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

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

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.