Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.