Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

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

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

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.

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.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

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