Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.