Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.