No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

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

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

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.