No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.

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.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

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

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

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.