As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

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.

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

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