Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

The enthusiasm to work hard and endless determination are the two great skills for success.

Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

Love doesn't just go away when it becomes inconvenient.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.