The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

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

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.