Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.