Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

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.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

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