Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.