a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.