Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.