The things that hurt us teach us.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.