This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.