There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

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

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.