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

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

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

The laws are with us, and God on our side.

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

There is healing in the bitter cup.