God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.