When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.