True love is the parent of humility.

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

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

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.