Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.