Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.