The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.