Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.