Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

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.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

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

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

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.