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

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.