The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.