Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.