No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

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.

Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.