I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

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