Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are..

I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace….

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities..

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one..

Mistakes are often the best teachers..

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self..

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely no….

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue..

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible..

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all..

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society..

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing..

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own..

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm..

We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next..

A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turne….

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial..

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at….

When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in ….

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with..

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character..