As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.