I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which beg….

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the ….

I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental a….

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting..

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity..

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us..

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill..

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious..

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they ca….

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all..

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means..

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections..

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth..

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties..

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning..

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show ….

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically ful….

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind..

The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be ….

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's hea….

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all other….