To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Calculation never made a hero.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.