The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.