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

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

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.