A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.