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

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.