That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.