We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.