As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

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.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

By writing much, one learns to write well.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.