The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.