He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

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.