Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.