I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

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

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

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