Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.