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

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.