There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.