Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.