Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.