Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.