It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.