Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.