For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.