Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.