Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.