It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.