Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

The tree is but a huge boquet.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.