The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.