I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
Patience is passion tamed.
The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Service makes men competent.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.