When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

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.

It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

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

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.