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

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.