Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.