Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.