Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.