Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

There is no college for the conscience.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

I look through the grave into heaven.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.