What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.