How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.