Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.