The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.