A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.