Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.