It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

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.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.