Storms purify the atmosphere.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.