The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

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

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.