The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

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

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

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