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

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.