Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.