For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.