The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.