There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

There is no wealth but life.