A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

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

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.