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

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.