Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.