When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.