Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

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

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.