Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

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

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.