"Education is only like good culture,óit changes the size, but not the sort."
"The Bible stands alone in human literature, in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct."
"Sorrow makes men sincere."
"Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field."
"Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered."
"Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God."
"The motherís heart is the childís schoolroom."
"Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity."
"There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease."
"If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things, without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it."
"Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law."
"It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joyóthese three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting."
"Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it."
"We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament."
"The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own conscience."
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."
"Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all."
"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
"The clearest window that ever was fashioned, if it is barred by spidersí webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is Godís window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!"
"Books are the true metempsychosis,óthey are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep."
"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
"The imagination is the secret and harrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith."
"As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heartís gratitude."
"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."
"I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of othersí faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one."