No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.