No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.