Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.