Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.