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

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.