We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.