One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.