No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.