In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.