Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

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.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.