Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.