There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

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.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.