Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

Pity is love in undress.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.