Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.