We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

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

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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.

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