No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.