Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty