Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.