Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.