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

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

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.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.