Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

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.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.