God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.