The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.

Frankness invites frankness.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!